Pillars of ashoka The pillars of Ashoka are a series of columns dispersed throughout the northern Indian subcontinent‚ erected or at least inscribed with edicts by the Mauryan king Ashoka during his reign in the 3rd century BC. Originally‚ there must have been many pillars but only nineteen survive with inscriptions‚ and only six with animal capitals‚ which were a target for Muslim iconoclasm. Many are preserved in a fragmentary state. Averaging between 40 to 50 feet (12 to 15 m) in height‚ and weighing
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and hardships they are dealing with as each individual youngster has different problems. Recently‚ during a school discovery week expedition‚ I traveled to Thailand with a senior school group. We visited a public school in the countryside out of Chiang Mai‚ where we acted as both temporary English tutors and HK ambassadors. From this incident‚ I have discovered the usefulness of using the body and signs as a language as we couldnt communicate with the students as they only knew how to pronounce
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Research indicates metacognition is strongly linked to learning. Better developed metacognitive knowledge‚ metacognitive control‚ and reflection are indicators of expert learners (Bransford et al.‚ 2000)‚ while lesser metacognitive processes are linked with lower-achieving students. (Campione‚ 1984; Chi et. el.‚ 1989) Students must be able to compare their understanding to what they already know‚ fit the concepts they learn to a big picture and reflect on their learning (NRC (National Resource Council)
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What the Bible Says About Angels According to the bible‚ an angel is a pure spirit created by God‚ and their job is to be a messenger for God. The word angel actually comes from the Greek word aggelos‚ which means messenger. The Hebrew word for angel is mal’ak‚ and it has the same meaning. Sometimes the bible even uses different words to signify angels. This happens first in Job when he calls them “ordinary people who carry messages” (Job 1:14). Then Isaiah calls them “prophets” (Isaiah 42:19)
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A WIN - WIN NEGOTIATION WITH CHINESE COMAPANY: A FULL REPORT OF CONTINENTIAL DESIGN. TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction ..........................................................................................................................1 Chapter 1: Profile Study Company profile ...........................................................................................................2 Buyers company profile .....................................................................
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The Great Chinese Revolution Stage 2: Socialist Revolution 1949 -1953 Big Ideas of the Triumph of the Chinese Communist Party and its Foreign Relations Idea #1 Events in China were dramatically affected by the Second World War in Asia and the tensions of the early Cold War. Idea #2 The Chinese Civil war was both lost by the GMD and won by the CCP. Idea #3 Mao Zedong viewed his victory in October of 1949 as the completion of the first step in a two-step process to transform Chinese society
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HotOrNot J eanine BENJAMIN ‚ C ristina BURDEINAIA ‚ C hiaHsuan CHIANG ‚ L yndsey NOEL 1. Summary and brief analysis HotOrNot can be defined as a phenomenon and trend of our modern society of meeting and mating through a website‚ app‚ and being behind a screen. The meetingrequests contains members’ decisions about whether or not they wish to meet other members (randomly generated from HOT or NOT.com’s membership database) after viewing pictures and brief profiles of those other members
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(“ Historical Context: 1984” 1 of 2). C. Franco- “Orwell himself fought against Franco in the Spanish civil War in the mid-1930s‚ supporting the socialist left” (“Historical Context: 1984” 1 of 2). D. Mao Tse-Tung-“1948/49: Mao Tse-tung battles Chiang Kai-Shek and his nationalist forces‚ finally defeating them in 1949 and establishing a totalitarian communist regime” (“1984” 243). E. Communism F. McCarthy- “The paranoia that characterized the McCarthy era was similar to the paranoia in 1984‚
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War can often occur with diminutive warning and result in vast destruction and excessive mortality. There are a variety causes for wars such as greed‚ power‚ and to improve the standard of living. Another cause of war is to protect the boundary of the country. In some countries such as Korea and Vietnam these boundaries define the different political views of the territories. Korea and Vietnam were divided between the Communist North and the Democratic South. This division of the countries led
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Review 1. Reasons Japan Attacked at Pearl Harbor after General Tojo takes over Japan he starts to expand it across the pacific‚ including European colonies‚ so the U.S. puts an oil embargo on Japan. Japan attack because of this and Hawaii = in pacific. 2. Attack at Pearl harbor- created by Yamamoto- 12/7/41. 359 Jap planes‚ only 29 shot down. Pearl Harbor = shallow= special torpedo’s created. Sinks 8 U.S. battleships. U.S.S. Arizona= 1 3. War Production Board/War Labor Board- took over industry
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